{"id":778581,"date":"2026-07-04T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/778581\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:24:12","slug":"report-four-clubs-circle-nbls-most-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/778581\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Four clubs circle NBL&#8217;s Most Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne United is reportedly leading the race to sign former Tasmania JackJumpers guard Sean Macdonald, according to CODE Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Logue reports Macdonald recently toured United\u2019s facilities, with Melbourne one of four clubs showing interest alongside Illawarra, Perth and South East Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old was named the NBL\u2019s Most Improved Player during Tasmania\u2019s championship-winning NBL24 campaign, before his progress was interrupted by two serious ACL injuries in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Macdonald was mutually released by the JackJumpers in May after playing 86 games for the club. He was at Tasmania when new United coach Jacob Chance was an assistant. <\/p>\n<p>The guard averaged 11.2 points, 3.8 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game in NBL25, but did not play last season as he continued his recovery from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here &gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/basketball\/melbourne-united-to-lure-extasmania-jackjumpers-guard-sean-macdonald\/news-story\/194a209c4958a50b927d5a6b1b654586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Melbourne United to lure ex-Tasmania JackJumpers guard Sean Macdonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.website-files.com\/64a50350adad23f0f1ef8f43\/69d47a153353ed2bdf7cd807_Article%20Banner_1920x250%20(1).avif\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne United is reportedly leading the race to sign former Tasmania JackJumpers guard Sean Macdonald, according to CODE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-778581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}